Fanta Desissa Gutema, DVM, MSc, BSc, MPH, PhD, CPH
Assistant Professor of Research
About Fanta Gutema
Dr. Fanta Gutema is an Assistant Professor of Research in the School of Public Health. Dr. Gutema was a Reckitt Global Hygiene Institute graduate fellow at the Department of Occupational and Environmental Health at the University of Iowa before he joined School of Public Health, University of Memphis. Dr. Gutema has an educational background began with receiving his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and his MSc in Veterinary Public Health from Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia. He received his BSc in Public Health from Kea-Med University College and his MPH from Adama General Medical Hospital and College in Ethiopia. He also received a High Diploma in Active Teaching and Learning from Addis Ababa University. He obtained his PhD in Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety from Ghent University in Belgium. He has extensive funded research experiences and research interests in the epidemiology of infectious diseases with a particular focus on enteric infections, foodborne diseases, zoonotic diseases, and antimicrobial resistant infections at the intersections of animal, human, and environmental health and identifying effective intervention strategies toward improving public health using a One Health approach.